incheon framework for action - --- - الصفحة ٧ - I VISION, RATIONALE AND PRINCIPLES

Education ٢٠٣٠ Framework for Action

٦. Education ٢٠٣٠ must be seen within the broader context of development today. Education systems must be relevant and respond to rapidly changing labour markets, technological advances, urbanization, migration, political instability, environmental degradation, natural hazards and disasters, competition for natural resources, demographic challenges, increasing global unemployment, persistent poverty, widening inequality and expanding threats to peace and safety. By ٢٠٣٠, education systems will need to enrol hundreds of millions of additional children and adolescents to achieve basic education (that is, pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education) for all [[iv]] as well as provide equal access to upper secondary and post-secondary education opportunities for all. At the same time, it is critical to provide early childhood care and education to ensure children’s long-term development, learning and health. It is also vital for education systems to ensure that all children, youth and adults are learning and acquire relevant skills, including proficiency in literacy. There is an urgent need for children, youth and adults to develop throughout life the flexible skills and competencies they need to live and work in a more secure, sustainable, interdependent, knowledge-based and technology-driven world. Education ٢٠٣٠ will ensure that all individuals acquire a solid foundation of knowledge, develop creative and critical thinking and collaborative skills, and build curiosity, courage and resilience.

٧. The renewed attention to the purpose and relevance of education for human development and economic, social and environmental sustainability is a defining feature of the Education ٢٠٣٠ agenda. This is embedded in its holistic and humanistic vision, which contributes to a new model of development. That vision goes beyond a utilitarian approach to education and integrates the multiple dimensions of human existence [[v] p. ١٠]. It understands education as inclusive and as crucial in promoting democracy and human rights and enhancing global citizenship, tolerance and civic engagement as well as sustainable development. Education facilitates intercultural dialogue and fosters respect for cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, which are vital for achieving social cohesion and justice.

٨. For countries and communities that embrace the need to bring quality education to all, the benefits are enormous. Evidence of education’s unmatched power to improve lives, particularly for girls and women continues to accumulate [[vi]]. Education has a key role in eradicating poverty: it helps people obtain decent work, raises their incomes and generates productivity gains that fuel economic development. Education is the most powerful means of achieving gender equality, of enabling girls and women to fully participate socially and politically, and of empowering them economically. Education is also one of the most potent ways to improve individuals’ health – and to make sure the benefits are passed on to future generations. It saves the lives of millions of mothers and children, helps prevent and contain disease, and is an essential element of efforts to reduce malnutrition. Moreover, education promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities [[vii]]. It is also fundamentally protective for children, young people and adults whose lives have been devastated by crisis and conflict, and provides them with the tools to rebuild their lives and communities.

٩. Unlocking education’s power for all will require creating more opportunity everywhere, but especially in countries and regions in conflict. Many of the largest education gaps are found in conflict and emergency situations. It is, therefore, critical to develop education systems that are more resilient and responsive in the face of conflict, social unrest and natural hazards

– and to ensure that education is maintained during emergency, conflict and post-conflict situations. Better education is also central to preventing and mitigating conflicts and crises and to promoting peace.

١٠. The principles informing this Framework are drawn from international instruments and agreements, including Article ٢٦ of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [[viii]], the Convention against Discrimination in Education [[ix]], the Convention on the Rights of the Child [[x]], the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [[xi]], the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [[xii]], the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [[xiii]], the Convention relating to the Status of